On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote:
I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new
build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to
migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. I had been looking egarly
at the openbrix zero but it looks like that project has been abandoned
. I've thought through a list of requirements and nice to have's and
am currently looking at two boards the nitrogen6x (with 2GB ram
option) and the arndaleboard.
(Re-posting to the list, I replied only to Peter before.)
Have you come across the cubieboard <http://cubieboard.org/>. It only
has 1Gb of RAM, and a single core Cortex A8 CPU@1GHz, but it is a
quarter of the price of the nitrogen6x (Which also only has 1Gb of RAM
unless you pay an extra $50) so it might be more cost effective to more
of them, and buy only one or two larger boards to build the most memory
hungry packages. It is the size of a Raspberry Pi.
The other option would be to approach one of the System integrators who
a working on dense rack mountable ARM servers for the data centre and
ask them if they would sponsor you by providing some hardware. You
project must get a great deal of traffic, and a "Your add here" at the
top of your home page would go a long way. The company I work for is a
medium sized Dell costumer, (To the tune of about $10k of servers per
month) and I know that several of us are also Raspberry Pi enthusiasts.
You might also try approaching ARM directly, as they might have some
better development hardware they could lend you. I have a friend who
works for them on gcc support. I could approach him if you think it
might be helpful.
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David Pottage
